YOU know about Galaxy Rock’s fall in the Kim Muir Challenge Cup at Cheltenham on March 14th, 2013 - the kick from a following horse that shattered John Thomas McNamara’s helmet and changed his life forever.

Earlier that month, McNamara suffered significant shoulder damage after a tumble in Askeaton so he was taken to Limerick hospital to have the shoulder popped back into its socket. This is a brutally painful process as ligaments, tendons and bone squeeze, stretch and twist. Yet he was back in the saddle the next day working the horses in his yard.